About The Author
I'm the author of the USA TODAY bestselling The Summer We Fell Apart (HarperCollins 2010) chosen as a Target Breakout Book and The Grown-Ups (William Morrow 2015), a Pop Sugar Best Book of Winter 2015, and a Sutter Home Book of the Month selection. My non-fiction work has been published at Longreads, The Weeklings, The Nervous Breakdown, Washington Independent Review of Books, Book Reporter, Writer’s Digest, The Bump, The Knot, Beyond the Margins, Writer Unboxed, and collected in the following anthologies, The Beautiful Anthology, Writing off Script: Writers on the Influence of Cinema, The Weeklings: Revolution #1 Selected Essays 2012-1013. My short fiction has appeared in Salon, 52 Stories, Five Chapters, Sun Dog, The Southeast Review and Literary Mama among others. I was the Sunday Editor at The Weeklings, and was three times a Glimmertrain Magazine Award finalist, as well as a finalist for The Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction. Recently I was a writer in residence at The Studios of Key West, Key West, Florida. I live in Saratoga Springs, New York. You can find me on instagram and twitter where I don't so much tweet as retweet. You can also write me an email at robin@robinantalek.com